ITALIAN CLAIMS REITERATED

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24912, 27 June 1946, Page 5

ITALIAN CLAIMS REITERATED

SPEAKERS CHEERED IN ASSEMBLY * AGED ORLANDO GIVEN OVATION ROME, June 25. After wildly cheering members who declared that Venezia Giulia must remain Italian, the Italian Constituent Assembly by 466 votes to 65 elected Signor Guiseppe Saragat, who is 48 years of age, as its president. He is a former right wing Socialist, and a former Ambassador to Paris. Signor Vittorio Orlando, the last of the Versailles Big Four, now In his eighty-seventh year, told the 500 delegates: “No material force and no immoral barter can detach Trieste and other towns in the area from Italy. The threat against the very existence of the nation appears to-day more terrible than at any time in our history.” He added that the treatment of Italy which was threatened at the Paris conference was an offence against the soldiers, sailors, and airmen who had fought and died in thousands. It had transformed them into mercenaries inasmuch as it meant that they had fought for foreigners who still considered Italy an enemy. Communists, Socalists, Republicans, and Monarchists joined in a tremendous ovation as Signor Orlando concluded. The Prime Minister (Signor de Gasperi) revealed that he had told the Foreign Ministers’ Conference: “The Italian community will never be able to support certain mutilations,” adding that if the peace treaties were too oppressive the Allies would put out the light which was sorely needed in a world now slipping back into darkness. CRUISER SAILS FOR TRIESTE TEN ALLIED WARSHIPS NOW IN GULF _ LONDON, June 25. A 10,000-ton British cruiser has sailed from Malta to Trieste. There are now 10 Allied warships in the Gulf of Venice. ORGANISATION OF UNO /REQUIREMENTS OF GREAT POWERS (Rec. 8.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 25. , ‘The United Nations is not perfect in the eyes of any nation,” said the Secretary-General .(Mr Trygve Lie), addressing the Yale Commencement luncheon, at which he received a doctorate of laws. Mr Lie said that 4mail nations particularly resented the veto clauses, but the organisation was ■framed to satisfy the requirements of all the great Powers. “In this 'we are creatures of necessity,’ he added, “Critics should remember that basic fact. When the Security Council failed to act drastically and decisively the necessity for agreement did not involve a compromise between right and wrong, but willingness was required of all Governments to go half-way in meeting other Governments in searoh for security and well-being.” Mr Lie enthusiastically praised the Economic and Social Council which, he said, one day might overshadow the Security Council.

PARLIAMENT’S WORK IN BRITAIN * GOVERNMENT METHODS CRITICISED (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. June 25 The leader of the Parliamentary Liberal Party (Mr Clement Davies, K.C.) said in a speech that the Government was overloading the Parliamentary machine. "There is danger of the House of Commons becoming an institution for professional politicians which would be an immeasurable disaster," he added. “The Government is resorting to methods tried by Charles I of giving power to the Executive to do by orders-in-council what should be done by Parliament." Sentence on Traitor Reduced.—The sentence of 16 years' imprisonment imposed by a court-martial last March on a naval stoker, Henry Herbert Rose, for treachery while a prisoner in Germany, has been reduced to five years.—London, June 25.